Number 1 (Kirk Cottage) and Number 2 Town House Cottages is a Grade II listed building in the North Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 May 1968. Cottages.
Number 1 (Kirk Cottage) and Number 2 Town House Cottages
- WRENN ID
- muted-porch-plum
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- North East Hertfordshire MP: Chris Hinchliff (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 27 May 1968
- Type
- Cottages
- Address
- Number 1 (Kirk Cottage) and Number 2 Town House Cottages, Church End, Barley
- OS grid reference
- TL 401 384
- Coordinates
- 52.02675, 0.04129
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Number 1 (Kirk Cottage) and Number 2 Town House Cottages are two dwellings, which were once three, likely built in the late 17th century and restored in 1971. The cottages feature a timber frame that is rendered, topped with a steeply pitched tiled roof. They have a four-window range and are one storey with an attic. There are two entrances, each with brackets supporting gabled heads. The windows consist of small pane flush frame horizontal sliding sashes, with a casement window to the right, all having hoodboards. There are three horizontal sliding sash dormers with raking heads. The main stack is located at the left end and is part of the Town House, while a rebuilt axial ridge stack is positioned to the right of the centre. The right end is half hipped with exposed plates and features a horizontal sliding sash window on the ground floor. The rear has similar dormers, and there are flat-roofed 20th-century additions. The interior has not been inspected. These cottages are included for their group value.
Local climate
Number 1 (Kirk Cottage) and Number 2 Town House Cottages sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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